Word: kimmelization
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...clear that the U.S. was not hunting a scapegoat for a defeat. The report of the President's five-man investigating commission told finally how the disaster occurred at Hawaii (see cols. 1-2) and it placed the blame, for "dereliction of duty," squarely upon Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanders on the spot...
Just what the future held for Admiral Kimmel and General Short was still a matter for speculation at week's end. The White House indicated that Secretaries Knox and Stimson would decide on what awaited them...
...Secretary of War replied February 7, 1941. Admiral Kimmel and General Short received copies of these letters...
TIME cover jinx still seems to be working. Latest casualties: Husband Kimmel, Fedor von Bock...
...TIME'S "cover jinx" has sometimes appeared to work on sports figures but not on others. Franklin Roosevelt, who has appeared on TIME'S cover six times (including this week) since 1923 has, apparently, never felt it. No jinx operated on Admiral Kimmel or General von Bock: the Admiral was placed on the cover after the news of Pearl Harbor arrived; of the General TIME said in its cover story, "when a list is made of the generals who have done most to whittle down Germany's chances of victory the name of Bock may lead...